The CUORE cryostat

CUORE crystal validation runs: Results on radioactive contamination and extrapolation to CUORE background

The CUORE Crystal Validation Runs (CCVRs) have been carried out since the end of 2008 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, in order to test the performance and the radiopurity of the TeO2 crystals produced at SICCAS (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for the CUORE experiment. In this work the results of the first 5 validation runs are presented. Results have been ...

Status of Cuore experiment and last results from Cuoricino

CUORE is a cryogenic-bolometer detector consisting of 988 TeO 2 crystals, 750 g each, operated at a temperature of ∼8 mK, currently under construction in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Its goal is to search for neutrinoless double beta decays with a sensitivity to the effective neutrino mass as low as a few tens of meV. CUORICINO, its pilot experiment, has proven the feasi...

Physics Potential and Prospects for the CUORICINO and CUORE Experiments

C. Arnaboldi a, F. T. Avignone III b, J. Beeman c,d, M. Barucci e, M. Balata f, C. Brofferio a, C. Bucci f, S. Cebrian g, R. J. Creswick b, S. Capelli a, L. Carbone a, O. Cremonesi a, A. de Ward h, E. Fiorini a, H. A. Farach b, G. Frossati h, A. Giuliani i, P. Gorla a,E. E. Haller c,d, I. G. Irastorza g, R. J. McDonald c, A. Morales g, E. B. Norman c, A. Nucciotti a, M. Pedretti i, C. Pobes g, ...

The CUORICINO and CUORE double beta decay experiments

After an introduction on the various experimental techniques to be adopted in searches for double beta decay, the new approach based on the use of cryogenic low temperature detectors is described. The present results are reported on the limit for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te obtained with the large bolometric detector CUORICINO. This setup consists of 44 cubic crystals of natural TeO...

Cryostat System for Spacecraft Materials Testing